Past Sponsors

Criteo

Criteo (NASDAQ: CRTO) is the global commerce media company that enables marketers and media owners to drive better commerce outcomes. Its industry leading Commerce Media Platform connects thousands of marketers and media owners to deliver richer consumer experiences from product discovery to purchase. By powering trusted and impactful advertising, Criteo supports an open internet that encourages discovery, innovation, and choice. For more information, please visit www.criteo.com.

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Koddi

Koddi has ten years of experience in helping retailers and commerce companies build marketplaces to monetize their inventory and data. Our commerce media platform and services are tailored for onsite, offsite, and in-store advertising environments. Koddi is at the forefront of driving industry advancements, integrating with top technology providers to address fragmentation and foster a more connected ecosystem. Retailers choose Koddi to differentiate their offerings and increase market share.

SMG

SMG is the global leader in connected commerce marketing, responsible for trading more than £1 million in retail media daily. After successfully connecting brands with shoppers at the point of consideration and purchase for 15 years, they have evaluated over £1.25 billion of historic media investments to assist shopper marketers in making more informed investment decisions aligned with their objectives. SMG is home to the retail media network specialist Threefold, which currently operates five of the largest retail media networks, including Asda Media Network, Boots Media Group, and Morrisons Media Group. They also house the award-winning commerce media agency Capture, which specialises in delivering truly connected commerce campaigns for brand giants to improve ROI. Its technology platform, Plan-Apps, is the most widely used operating system for commerce and retail media optimisation in the UK. It is designed to help retailers grow and scale their omnichannel offerings.

Rokt

Rokt is the global leader in ecommerce technology, enabling companies to drive incremental value from every transaction by unlocking relevant messages at the moment customers are most likely to convert. Rokt’s machine learning platform, built over the last 10 years, and scaled network powers billions of global transactions annually for the world’s leading companies, including Live Nation, boohoo, PayPal, Uber, Staples, GoPuff, Deliveroo, and HelloFresh. Headquartered in New York City, the company operates in 15 countries across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the US by Inc. for the last 3 years in a row. To learn more, visit Rokt.com.

Epsilon

Epsilon is a global advertising and marketing technology company positioned at the center of Publicis Groupe. Epsilon accelerates clients’ ability to harness the power of their first-party data to activate campaigns across channels and devices, with an unparalleled ability to prove outcomes. The company’s industry-leading technology connects advertisers with consumers to drive performance while respecting and protecting consumer privacy. Epsilon’s people-based identity graph allows brands, agencies and publishers to reach real people, not cookies or devices, across the open web. For more information, visit epsilon.com.

Skai

Skai is an omnichannel advertising platform, uniquely enabling brands and agencies to run data-driven programs across walled garden media. It empowers both media leaders and activation teams to drive impactful results from their advertising program with AI-powered decisioning, activation, and optimization solutions. Its partners include Google, Amazon Ads, Microsoft, Walmart Connect, Apple Search Ads, Instacart, Criteo, TikTok, Snap, Pinterest, Meta, and more.

For over a decade, Skai has earned the trust from notable brands such as Reckitt, Doordash, Sony, Philips, and L’Oreal. Renowned for innovation and a values-driven culture, Skai is headquartered in San Francisco and Tel Aviv with eight international locations.

Crealytics

The world’s leading retailers use Crealytics’ retail media and performance marketing solutions to conquer the modern digital advertising landscape. With an approach based on measurement, incrementality, and data activation, Crealytics’ advanced technologies and agency services drive revenue for more than 60 of the world’s largest eCommerce brands, including ASOS, Foot Locker, and Urban Outfitters. Crealytics’ diverse, inclusive work environment includes over 200 international employees who work remotely and from worldwide offices, including New York, Berlin, London, and Mumbai.

Mirakl

Mirakl is the global leader in platform business innovation. Mirakl’s suite of solutions provides enterprises with a transformative way to drive significant growth and efficiency in their online business. Since 2012, Mirakl has been pioneering the platform economy, empowering retail and b2b enterprises with the most advanced, secure and scalable technology to digitize and expand product assortment through marketplace and dropship, improve efficiency in supplier catalog management and payments, personalised shopping experiences, and boost profits through retail media. Mirakl is trusted by 450+ industry-leading businesses worldwide including Macy’s, Decathlon, B&Q, Kroger, H&M Group, Superdrug and ASOS. For more information: www.mirakl.com.

Inurface Media

Discover how inurface media can transform your retail space with their innovative digital signage and audio-visual solutions. As a leader in the industry inurface media specialises in creating captivating, bespoke installations that enhance customer engagement and elevate the shopping experience.

Retail media networks benefit immensely from inurface media’s advanced technology, which offers real-time updates, interactive content, and insightful data analytics. This allows retailers to quickly adapt to consumer behaviours and preferences, ensuring targeted and effective communication.

Partnering with inurface media means unlocking the potential of your retail environment. Their commitment to excellence and innovation ensures that your brand stands out, driving both customer loyalty and sales. Explore how inurface media can help you create a dynamic, engaging retail space at https://inurfacemedia.co.uk/.

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Savi UK

Formerly known as Valassis, savi is a leading marketing technology company that connects shoppers, retailers, and brands through innovative mobile, digital, and print solutions. Delivering over £300m worth of savings to shoppers annually, savi clears 87% of FMCG national brand coupons accepted in over 19,000 stores nationally and has worked with leading brands and retailers to increase customer activation and loyalty for over 50 years. www.saviuk.co.uk.

Mediarithmics

Mediarithmics is the modern Customer Data Platform that helps enterprise players revolutionise growth by re-architecting consumer engagement at scale. We power real-time marketing personalisation, cookieless audience monetisation and agile data collaboration within a single technology solution. By de-siloing data across your business, we enable marketing, monetisation, product and data teams to action insights to create more compelling customer experiences.

Since 2013, mediarithmics has partnered with some of Europe’s most forward-thinking businesses, including Channel 4, Fnac-Darty, Havas Media, Orange Advertising, TF1, Canal+ and many more. In 2023 we acquired Easyence to strengthen our ability to connect retail and media and improve revenue performance for clients.

Advertima Vision AG

Advertima’s real-time In-store Retail Media solution transforms physical retail environments and stores into a revenue-generating Retail Media channel. Combining 3D computer vision and advanced machine learning, we transform in-store shoppers into anonymized, addressable, and measurable audiences.

Easy to integrate into existing Retail Media ecosystems, our solution creates audience segments based on attributes such as age and gender. Targeted ads are served through existing digital signage via direct bookings or programmatically to relevant shoppers already in a browsing and purchasing mindset. Data-driven insights akin to online unlock and fuel a new era of performance-driven in-store media for every stakeholder: Trade and Shopper Marketers plus Brands.

Advertima Vision AG was founded in 2021 in St.Gallen, Switzerland, by retail, media and tech experts to become the market-leading In-store Retail Media solution. Advertima’s fast-growing team works with customers and technology partners across the globe.

Zeropark

Zeropark is a global commerce media platform providing incremental advertising solutions for both – brands and businesses looking to connect with consumers during the key moments of the modern customer journey, as well as publishers wanting to maximize the monetization potential of their sites.

By streamlining high-intent consumers toward promoted brands during the key moments of their buying journey, the Zeropark platform delivers incremental performance to both the demand and supply sides.

We’ll be happy to discuss the opportunities with brands, agencies, and networks, as well as publishing partners interested in maximizing their earning potential.

Our partners can count on:
• Fully managed media buying & campaign management services provided by our in-house media buying team
• A self-serve campaign management platform offering an intuitive interface, fast campaign set-up, advanced targeting, and robust reporting capabilities.
• Full data transparency & brand safety as assured by our in-house compliance team

Kevel

Kevel powers world-class retail media networks with the Retail Media Cloud™. With the combination of the Kevel Ad Server and Kevel Audience, multi-brand retailers, marketplaces, and ecommerce companies can launch limitless ad formats and unique targeting segments online and in-store, all with closed-loop attribution. Kevel believes that every digital retailer should have the capability to scale their own distinct ad platform, just like big tech players like Amazon. Customers like Edmunds, Klarna, Delivery Hero, Leroy Merlin, Slickdeals, and other leading retailers and marketplaces all launched their own retail media network with Kevel. The company has garnered numerous accolades, most recently earning recognition as one of the leading 100 innovative tech start-ups driving the future of brand-to-consumer in 2023 and awarded the MarTech Breakthrough Award for best overall ad tech company in 2022. Learn more at www.kevel.com.

DPAA

DPAA is the global trade marketing association, driving the growth and digitization of out-of-home (OOH) media and its growing role in the Omnichannel mix. DPAA’s Global Summit on October 15 in New York is the largest one-day media/marketing event. Membership in the DPAA community brings many business acceleration benefits, including a wide array of products. DPAA offers members an extensive database of research, best practices and case studies; tools for planning, training and forecasting; social media amplification of news; insights on software and hardware solutions; further integration into the advertising ecosystem by connecting DOOH networks, brands, agencies, ad tech and others.

Catalina

Catalina stands at the forefront of in-store activation, a field where we have innovated for 40 years by delivering meaningful value to shoppers, while helping hundreds of the world’s retailers and thousands of brands drive incremental growth in key categories and shopper segments, expand baskets and build loyalty.

Our in-store technologies, including advanced colour printers and innovative print-on-receipt capabilities, consistently deliver measurable increases in retail sales and customer engagement for our partners. These solutions have been pivotal in consistently driving 1-2% of total sales for our retail partners.

In fact, our expertise extends beyond our renowned printed coupon solutions. We are a dynamic, global leader in retail marketing, adept in various channels including digital, TV, and data services. Catalina’s Omnichannel Managed Media portfolio includes full-funnel marketing solutions that craft highly targeted custom audiences; deliver precisely personalised messages across in-store and online, optimise campaigns inflight and provide closed-loop measurement.

We continuously invest in machine learning and AI enhancements to our personalisation technology to enhance campaign performance, while ensuring the protection of each shopper’s right to privacy. Our commitment is to uphold the highest standards of data protection and governance, information security and compliance, ethics, and industry certifications.

At the core of our proposition for Sainsbury’s is our world-leading, cloud-based Catalina Marketing Platform (CMP), the driving force behind our in-store activation solutions, providing unparalleled speed, flexibility, and accuracy in delivering tailored customer engagements, including personalised ads, offers, incentives and reminders that engage shoppers. Our platform is designed to seamlessly integrate with your in-store and online operations, ensuring minimal disruption while maximising impact.

Our customer first philosophy is at the heart of our strategy, and our flexible, scalable approach provides options to explore our wider range of global marketing solutions as your business requirements evolve.

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Webloyalty

Webloyalty is a leading online savings programme provider. We work with over 200 retail businesses internationally to help them build stronger, more profitable relationships with their customers. Through our membership programmes, we help our online retail partners’ customers make significant savings each year while providing the partner with an additional revenue stream. As well as incentivising customers to make repeat purchases at the partner’s site, they can also earn cashback and get great deals on everything from fashion to electronics to travel at top online stores. Webloyalty started operating in the UK in 2007 and has since expanded into France, Spain, Ireland, Brazil, the Netherlands and Belgium.

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DPAA

DPAA is the global trade marketing association, driving the growth and digitization of out-of-home (OOH) media and its growing role in the Omnichannel mix. DPAA’s Global Summit on October 15 in New York is the largest one-day media/marketing event. Membership in the DPAA community brings many business acceleration benefits, including a wide array of products. DPAA offers members an extensive database of research, best practices and case studies; tools for planning, training and forecasting; social media amplification of news; insights on software and hardware solutions; further integration into the advertising ecosystem by connecting DOOH networks, brands, agencies, ad tech and others.